Harvest Village / Kaifeng (NOT Ai)

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Rendered of in-game sceneries re-imagined

Not AI

Pipeline is Photoshop + Lightroom / Capture One.
Manual frequency separation (low/high split) for skin topology, micro dodge & burn to rebuild light falloff, re-introducing sensor-style luminance noise + chroma grain.
Color is corrected in linear space, then film-response curve + highlight roll-off to avoid CGI contrast.
Depth fixed with selective Gaussian + lens-profile blur, plus atmospheric haze to match real focal compression.
Everything is hand-matched to physical camera behavior.

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Harvest Village / Kaifeng (NOT Ai)

[violet pine]

Very good!

[neon prairie]

Kaifeng city from afar is my favorite

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Roof Camping near the Clinic

[mild flume]

Love it

[fallen siren]

@hard belfry

@mild flume

@arctic pawn

[graceful jackal]

amazing!!!

[clear lake]

These are all soo good 🔥🔥

@dusky hinge here

[dusky hinge]

dem

[past storm]

🔥 respect

[crude geyser]

I find it hard for my brain to wrap around the characters the most. They genuinely look like AI realism filters. Are you hand-drawing on top of these? Is your graphics card just a beast? Is it photo splicing and matching with real faces using Photoshop?? I'm curious to see the process.

[vernal birch]

Fire 🔥🔥

[snow aspen]

Make a video tutorial on processing))

[subtle ridge]

Check the original post. Drakeninja does give some details about the process there.

[crude geyser]

I said see, however. I did read the original post. Thanks tho!

[crude geyser]

Agreed! Would love to see the process in action!